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Amanda Tiffany, born in 1995, is the daughter of Richard Tiffany, a busy CEO of an online womens company and Helena Tiffany, a stay at home socialite is used to life in the lower upper class.
she has been attached to her mobile phone sine about 2007. Her family live comfortably in their 5 bedroom house in the countryside in Durham. She’s an only child and has always been slightly resented by her mother for taking away her freedom and her father was always busy working.

Growing up was an awkward and lonely time for Amanda who always just wanted to be the centre of everyone's attention. From being born, her mothers friends, who would often be flitting in and out of the house, absolutely adored her. She was like a dress up dolly to them, they were always buying her the latest in kiddie couture so she looked top notch when her mother carried her along to all of her wine tasting days and cocktail making classes in her little louis vuitton print car seat life was great… and then she began to walk… and talk… and get in the way. Her time of being a sweet little novelty and by the time she was 5 she was shipped off to a private boarding school for privileged children and was only home on weekends when her mother would take her to gymnastics class, dance, singing lessons and take her along with her when she went for her weekly salon trip.

Those moments were Amanda's favourites, seeing her mother's face light up when the nail technician would paint a coat of some luxurious, thick coloured paint over the long acrylic. He mother was always happy when she left the hair salon, her curls bouncing behind her as she walked. She would even get a cuddle and a trip to the drive through for an ice cream. Only one though because her mummy always said fat children are ugly.

When she turned 15, amanda was ready to grow up, she had stopped being the annoying little girl that got in her mother's way and turned into more like a friend to her. She would sneak her daughter out to bars with her friends and buy her drinks. If the bartender wouldn’t serve amanda, Helena would lean over the bar, touch the bartenders hand and whisper something in his ear and before she knew it a drink would be in front of her. Her mother would wink, take a sip and warn “don’t tell your father”.

Amanda was going to be just like her mother when she grew up.

When she was 16 she set up her instagram @Amanduhlovesyou and with all the trips she would go on with her mother to wineries, designer shops, foreign countries and the access to all of the new fashion a girl could want thanks to her father's business, she had a growing follower count in the 100,000s within 6 months.

She’s blessed with good looks and she knows it. When she hit 18 and was blessed by being totally done with puberty, she decided to stop with her education and take up a career modelling and being an online social media influencer. She has instagram, twitter, snapchat and youtube and she even has a patreon account on which her more devoted fans can pay between £5 and £1000 a month for the chance to interact with her in person.

It’s been going so well for her, she has her own apartment in london now and a gorgeous group of “friends” who she parties with all the time. She knows they only want her for her money though so she’s always careful of that.

One day she got an email to her management and business opportunities account that said about a brand new job interview process. She immediately called her best friend Josh, a makeup artist and laughed about why the hell someone would be sending someone of her caliber some dumb job interview link up?! She thought it was entirely laughable! Josh however immediately saw the opportunity. VLOG IT!

So she put on her red bottoms, clipped on her waist cinching belt and took her phone straight to this interview place.

Using her feminine charms and excitable need to be the centre of attention to make a splash with the people she meets. She KNOWS for a fact that she doesn't need to be there at all ad that makes her feel like shes a million times better than the rest of the losers in that place. As if she didn’t already know that from the way they looked. Funnily enough though, she didn’t have time in her little world to analyse any of her fellow candidates too deeply, she was too busy checking her lashes and lips on her selfie camera.

So there she is, ready to vlog this crazy new interviewing process for her adoring fans and she gets told she’s supposed to be working in PR. amanda immediately know that she’s wasted her time. What a bore! She’s a Princess.

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Call time:7:30

Filming scene 10 at the botanist in media city.

Having a 7:30 call time meant a 5am start for me so that i could get my tan, hair, makeup and costume ready to go and be ready for transport at 7:30 at tramways.

We got an uber to media city and went to the university building for the others to get dressed and put on makeup.

We went over to the botanist at 9 to set up and begin filming.

I decided to take some amanda instagram photos to get into character in such a foreign environment and i read over my character description again to make sure my head was in the right place.

I suggested to tom that amanda would sensually lick the cake she was taking a selfie with and then just shove it all in her mouth like a pig at the end of her talking to add a moment of comedy and he liked it a lot.

This final scene we shot gave me a lot of opportunity to expand on amanda’s character, i was able to communicate with the other characters in this scene, re-enforcing my bitchiness and self obsession.

Which is exactly what i wanted to do.

here are some photos of Amanda.

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Call time: 12.25

Scene 13 is the last scene of amanda and the last scene we will be filming in the SU space.

Originally in the script I just had the line “Fine” which i planned on saying with an eye roll and over dramatic disgust in being told i would be best suited to such a boring job.

When i sat down in the room opposite john and with tom we all decided that the scene needed something more to make it more funny and make amanda more of a relevant character rather than just background.

We played with a few ideas but all of them to me seemed forced or like they would only be funny to us because they’re inside jokes that people who didn’t work on the production wouldnt understand.

I came up with the idea that rather than waiting to be told what her perfect job would be, amanda would try and guess her role and come up with a whole bunch of crazy things.

I wrote a list in my phone of all the crazy amanda type jobs i could think of and memorized them.

When i said them i made sure to be getting more and more frustrated with not getting the right answer as time went on and more desperate to know the truth.

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Call time 12:00

Today we filmed scene 11 in the SU space.

In scene 11, the candidates are asked to put themselves into order of different things like oldest to youngest & prettiest to ugliest.

Tom let us improvise a bit with this scene to see what would work best. It still wasn’t the workshopping he had promised us in the audition but it was nice to have a bit of freedom. He still stopped us if he didn’t agree with something but with a bit of explanation, we all managed to compromise.

Going into working on this scene thankfully so late on in the shooting process, i had a good idea of where amanda would place herself in these line ups. She obviously would thing she’s the prettiest and she would probably place herself quite high up on the intelligence scale, or at least try to.

The hardest part of filming this scene for me was the fact i was wearing very high shoes but as i was trying to walk, i think the pain gave me another anchor into amandas life and her world which allowed me to feel more in character.

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Call time 10am

We were back in the SU today filming pickups for Scenes 5 and 6

Because we were doing pickup, i was quite confident in the performance i wanted to deliver and what i had to do to achieve that. The most important thing for me to focus on was continuity. Remembering which way i was sitting, when i moved and what i did.

I spoke to Georgie who was in charge of continuity and made sure i was sat in the same way. I also spoke to roisin and the design team to make sure my costume was the same.

I was actually wearing one of my bracelets on the wrong arm so i changed that and then focused on making sure i did the same thing i did before.

I unfortunately didn’t get any performance direction at all from tom that would help improve my performance in the scene so we must have been reshooting for technical reasons.

I feel like my performance could be so much better if he would put some more focus into developing the performance and not just dictating. I talked to him about it and he just said that i am doing fine. I have no choice but to trust him.

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Call time 12.30

We were scheduled the new adelphi building to get changed then going straight to the newton building as a group once ready to film scene 3 and 4.

I decided to save time by getting myself dressed and ready before going to the new adelphi building for the call time, this way i could just focus on my character.

Filming scene 4

This is the first time the candidates meet and introduce themselves to one another.

Again i wanted Amanda’s superiority complex to come across to the audience. I was using actions like “I ridicule you”,  “i mock you” and “I shut you down” in my script.

I also wanted to be slightly cartoon like in the way i was sat. since this is the audience’s first introduction to amanda, i really wanted her to look like she’s ready for an instagram photoshoot at any point so i sprawled my legs out on the sofa i was sat on, flashing the red bottoms on my shoes in the direction of the camera.

I decided with tom that i would start the scene with my sunglasses on and dramatically take them off when i start to speak. In amanda’s head this would look so slick and cool but in reality it makes her look even more fake and self obsessed.

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Call time 9:30

Today we filmed scenes 7 and 8 in the SU.

Much like yesterday, my day started at 7am when i got up and started the preparation for amanda but today i decided to do all of my getting ready in character. I got up, put on the top 40 R&B charts, something that amanda, a party girl, would love and got in  the shower to wash off my fake tan to make it look more natural. I straightened my hair and did my full face of makeup including lashes and glitter then took a selfie for my insta story then left to go to set.

Filming scene 7

This scene is the task where the candidates have to take a cup of drink from the table.

Amanda is among the first few to approach the drinks.

I wanted it to be clear that amanda wasn’t bothered about rushing to be first, she is above rushing herself to make herself seem superior, she already is superior.

To put this message across, i made sure to be using my phone on my approach to the table and to have this lovely moment of confirmation that she is better than most people when mark has already got a drink for her.

This little confidence boost makes her deny him and get her own drink, Juice, better than water that some guy is offering her. I picked up the juice and delivered my line “thanks, but i’d rather have the OJ”  and strutted back to my seat to take selfies and message people.

Filming scene 8

Scene 8 is the music scene. The candidates had to put on headphones and react to the music is whichever way they would.

So to do this i just started the thought processes of thinking like amanda for about 45 seconds before we started recording and just let the music speak to me.

Filming scene 9

We also had time today to film some of the staring competition scene that is yet another part of the interview process.

In this scene, the candidates stand opposite each other and stare each other out.

I decided that amanda wouldn’t just be staring, she would be posing and pouting like zoolander, almost trying to seduce charlie who is stood opposite just trying to do his best and be professional.

I fluttered my eyelashes and squinted my eyes to give a bedroom eyes look and then ended the scene with a smile and a hair flick.

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Call time: 9:30

Today we filmed scenes 5 and 6 in the SU 9:30

Since it was our first day of filming and our first day of having us all together in our full costumes, i found it so much easier to get into character.

I started the day by becoming amanda and did an instagram photoshoot.

In the very first scene of just business, it’s the first thing she really does so i wanted to do that on the first day of filming as well.

These are the photos we took:

Scene 5 filming

Scene 5 is the the first phase of the interview process in the film.

The candidates are filling out a form about their personal details. It is revealed that Shona has a criminal record.

my character amanda is the one who notices it first. Even though i don’t have any speaking lines in the scene, it’s important my judgemental and bitchy nature comes across through my body language and facial expressions.

I made sure my posture was very up straight so that i seemed taller than the others.

Holding myself higher will let the audience know that amanda knows she is above these people.

I decided that when i see that shona has a criminal record, i behave totally over dramatically, looking at her with a massive fake smile, gasping, shuffling away from her and trying to subtly look at the others but making it totally obvious. I did this because Amanda likes to have dirt on other people that she can share, looking at the others when i find out this information will show the audience that.

Scene 6 filming

Scene 6 is the first interview task, hand shaking.

I have one line in this scene “Hi, amanda! Nice to meet me i know!”

This is one of the lines that i originally created in the audition and was included into the script when I got the part.

It is  a chance for me to show Amanda’s over confidence and self obsession.

The delivery of the line i knew would be said through a smile and sickly sweet but alo said in a lower register to create a carefree and more sexy vibe.

When amanda was called, i stood up and strutted over to the interviewer, holding out my hand with a big smile, delivered my line and then looked all around the room to see the hidden cameras i had been told about, lingering longer than i should to make the most of my (amandas) moment.

I finished with a hair flick and strutte back to my seat, getting my phone out to write a tweet about what had just happened.

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Today we had a slightly later call time so i booked an appointment to get my nails done to help complete the look. I then finally went into uni to do a costume try on for tom, dan and the design team. They all approved the look although i wasnt able to try on the full costume for them because i had a meeting with the instagram boutique scheduled for later in the afternoon so i tried on what i had and then sent them costume pics straight away after the meeting.

Today i also went to visit the instagram sho The KT Label and was given some clothes to use for the shoot. This is the outfit i settled on. The design team and tom all approved of the look. I also did a practice of my makeup for amanda today.

After this week i feel like i have a strong idea of character, a full actioned script and i have been able to do my method acting and character building activities in my own spare time.

I’m ready and excited to begin filming next week.

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Today i came in with fake tan on and my heels in my bag ready to go.

We worked on the handshake scene today and initially tom wanted me to come up and be super bubbly and over friendly with a high pitched voice but as i strutted over to john on our first run through it just didn’t feel right to me so i talked with tom and we decided that i could be more sultry and demanding with my tone of voice since amanda does believe she is better than everyone else and has a very high opinion of herself, she would fake smile to impress but wouldn’t be so people pleasing that she goes all excitable like a puppy. She’s already established a name for herself.

I had a meeting with tom today to talk about our differences in opinion about amanda. I explained to him that i feel like amanda is secure enough in herself to not really care what people think. If people dislike her, she assumes its jealousy and he agreed. It’s nice to know that he is comfortable with me taking the character in that direction.

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I discussed costume with the design team and with the producer dan and we decided that i should be fake tanned with fake nails and a full face of glam makeup. Tom suggested i do that myself because it would be the kind of makeup i would normally wear on a night out so would look good and like the look we were going for.  I collected some pics of possible fashion inspo and set up a meeting with a girl who runs a instagram fashion shop to have a look at some of her stock. She said i could borrow some of her stock for the shoot.

I used the photos from my character description yesterday as well as pictures from instagram influencers that i follow to get a strong idea of the version of amanda we were creating.

Today we also did some blocking of the interview task scenes and i found that having this visual idea of amada helped me to bring the confidence of a girl who looks like that to my performance. I had decided to use my designer heels when in character so i will bring them in tomorrow and do the next bit of blocking in them because i know that wearing them will change the way i carry myself and the way i walk.

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Today we worked more on the script doing more read throughs. Tom would stop us on every line and make sure we were giving him the exact delivery that he wanted which unfortunately took a lot of creative freedom away.

In the afternoon we wrote character descriptions for ourselves then shared them with tom and the rest of the cast.

This is mine:

Amanda knows the gifts she’s been given and knows how to work with them. She knows the she’s gorgeous and she knows how to put that’s to use to hustle and make her money. She’s always been lucky and her looks have allowed her to fall into easy money and plenty of opportunities. She’s an Instagram influencer, she loves makeup and takes pride in how she looks.
Because she’s so used to people assuming that she has the IQ of a spoon because of the way she looks, she tends to be bitchy and always on the defensive trying to prove herself. She believes she is better than most people and that she deserves more from life than them.
She enjoys fashion and she always is expecting a compliment so when she doesn’t get one it’s a little out of the ordinary and can throw her off.
She knows she could be successful but just wants to see if she can get an extra push but he right direction.
She thrives off Male attention and uses her charms to get her own way."

Tom really liked my description of amanda so i decided firmly that i would dive into the character as i had written her in this description.

Tom said at the end of the day that he would like to to do my own costume hair and makeup for this part so tomorrow i plan on working on that with the design team.

Here's one of my inspiration photos:

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Today was the first day of production for the film just business, written by Will burns- Jones and directed by Thomas mccullough.

We were given our scripts as soon as we arrived and did our first ever read through.

It was really interesting to get a feeling for everyone's characters. Since this is the first time we had been allowed to see the script, it was important for me that i went in with a strong and clear  idea of my character amanda and made some strong choices about how i was going to become her.

I decided that her voice would have an annoying nasal-y quality to it and that she would drag out words quite a bit.

During our first read through, i focused a lot on thinking of the delivery of my lines and played around with them quite a lot.

We had breaks to discuss character throughout the first readthrough but after it, i decided to sit and write some little bits of ad-lib that I though would be funny and add to the character:

I thought it would be funny for amanda during the tasks to give each character little bits of advice that didnt really make any sense like, “You know what they say pippa, you’re never truly a failure if you smell like a victorias secret model” and spray her with fragrance or “sweetie, theres nothing that fake tan and the story of how i met beyonce to put a smile on someones face! It was in a service station and yeah it might not have actually been beyonc-”

“I’m not dumb, ghosts are dumb. You cant even see them!”

I tried o suggest some of my ideas to Tom but he had decided that he didnt want to piece to collaborative anymore and he didnt want to workshop the script or allow for improvisation and character input so I decided I would be better of sticking to the script.

We spent the rest of the day going over the script and i experimented with the delivery of my existing lines instead by using different voices and emphasising different words.